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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published November 1962
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Characters Hulk; Rick Jones; Mongu
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters Typeset
Reprinted in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #4; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #8; in Essential Hulk (Marvel, 1999 series) #1; in Incredible Hulk, The (Pocket Books, 1978 Series) #81446-X [1] (April 1978)

14 page Hulk story "The Monster and the Machine"

Characters FEATURE: Hulk (Brief Origin); GUESTS: Thunderbolt Ross; Betty Ross; Rick Jones
Synopsis Rick uses some of Banner's machinery to transform the Hulk, who was stuck in his monster persona, back into Bruce; Bruce is incredibly weakened by the transformation and takes a chance in using the machinery on himself again which transforms him back into the Hulk's body but with Bruce Banner's mind; Now Bruce and the Hulk can switch at will using the gamma ray machine.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters Art Simek
Reprinted in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #4; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #8; in Essential Hulk (Marvel, 1999 series) #1; in Smash! (IPC Magazines Ltd, 1966 series) #20 (18 June 1966); in Incredibile Hulk, L' (Editoriale Corno, 1980 series) #12; in Incredible Hulk, The (Pocket Books, 1978 Series) #81446-X [1] (April 1978)

10 page Hulk story "The Gladiator from Outer Space"

Characters FEATURE: Hulk; GUEST: Rick Jones; VILLAIN: Mongu [Boris Monguski]
Synopsis An alien invades earth and claims his people will conquer the planet unless he is met in battle by the strongest opponent the world has to offer; Hulk meets the challenge but finds out it is all a ploy by the Russians to capture him and create an army of hulks of their own.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters Art Simek
Reprinted in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #5; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #8; in Essential Hulk (Marvel, 1999 series) #1; in Incredibile Hulk, L' (Editoriale Corno, 1980 series) #12; in Incredible Hulk, The (Pocket Books, 1978 Series) #81446-X [1] (April 1978)